Freecom Portable II BP CDRW 16/10/40x

Description: High speed CD rewriter with choice of USB/Firewire/Parallel & PCMCIA.

Newest Review: ... a breeze to use though. OK, now the stuff I didn't like so much... I bought the Freecom Portable CDRW for my laptop (a ... more

... 466MHz Win98 with 64Mb RAM). It runs fine, however, PLEASE NOTE that if you are running it on an older USB connection, which I have, the most you can get it to run at is 4x. So unfortunately I can't sing its praises for speed, because my laptop USB port doesn't support USB2, apparently USB2 ports are many, many times faster than their predecessors. The drive itself DOES support USB2 - it's my laptop that doesn't have it. The back of the box says that you can do 1Mb/sec data transfer with USB and...more

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Freecom Portable II BP CDRW 16/10/40x: Reliable, great software (608 words)
by - written on 12/01/02 (Very useful, 632 readings)
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First the great things: It's very reliable. It hasn't given me any problems. It's blue plastic cover has even withstood a cup of coffee (accidental crash test, I'm afraid...). It has a headphone jack and volume control in the front. You get the Adaptec Easy CD Creator software free in the box, and it is easy to use, flexible, and very very good. It even has a nifty CD artwork design program which is better than most of the others I've seen. My only gripe on that one is that the preview is very low-definition. I thought it was going to look rubbish but actually it was fine when I saw the physical print. I've used ... Read the complete review